The Sun. — London, England, 1838-07-09 00:00:00

SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS. A good deal of surprise is expressed by several of our contemporaries at the intemperate language of the Duke of Wellington in characterising the late appointments of Magistrates by the Lord Chancellor. There are so many good points in the Duke of Wellington, that it is always painful to us to speak of him in terms of reprehension. On the occasion in question he certainly forgot what was due to the Lord Chancellor, and betrayed a most suspicious soreness. Every man loves justice in the abstract ; but there are not many persons who are fond of it when the sentence is against themselves. The Duke of Wellington might have admired the conduct of the Lord Chancellor, had it not unfortunately happened that it amounted to a reproof of his Grace in his capacity of Lord Lieutenant of Hampshire. A Sunday paper (the Observer), re marks— " The Illustrious Duke put hypothetically some cases, in which the Lord Chancellor might wish, for political pur poses, to include improper persons in the Commission of the Peace ; but we have a strong suspicion that the cause of the Noble Duke's soreness is to be found in the consciousness that he himself, as Lord-Lieutenant of Hampshire had objected to the insertion in the Commission for that county of the name of such a gentleman as Mr. Augustus Moreton, Lord Ducie's son, and resident in the Isle of Wight, simply because Mr. Augustus Moreton was the Liberal Member for Gloucester shire. Are we mistaken in adding that the Illustrious Duke did also object to the appointment of Mr. Oglander as a Ma gistrate for that same county, because he too bad upon him a taint of Reform principles?" If the responsibility of appointing to the Magistracy rests with the Lord Chancellor, how could his Lordship have acquitted himself to the satisfaction of his own con science by suffering respectable gentlemen, of whose qua lification and title there does not exist the shadow of doubt, to remain excluded from the Commis sion ? But the Duke of Wellington, while he ad mits the responsibility rests with the Lord Chancel lor, would yet, strangely enough, make him a mere passive instrument for confirming the fiats of Lords-lieutenant. Whether they allow themselves to be blinded by partiality and prejudice, and refuse to recommend the fittest persons, or whether they are guided in their recommendations by the utmost vigilance and impartiality, the Lord Chancellor must act blindly in accordance with their opinions ! The doctrine is preposterous. Whatever the intention of those who have agitated the question, great good must result from the circumstance ; for every sensible person through out the country will at once perceive that the Lord Chan cellor has vindicated the Royal authority, of which he is the depository, and interfered in time to prevent a most dangercus encroachment from becoming too firmly fixed to be comb .tted. The Lord Chancellor ought, and will al ways, as a matter of course, consult with the Lords lieutenant of counties before he nominates any one to the magistracy, and due weight will always to be given to the or inions of Lord-Lieutenants. It rests, however, with himself to determine on the fitness of individuals, and not with the Lord-Lieutenants. But if the Lord Chancellor must not only blindly adopt the re commendations of the Lord-Lieutenants, but adopt the re commendations of the Lord-Lieutenants alone, then the latter have def . /ref° the appointment,and it would be better that the responsibility should rest with them also. The next step would be for Lori-Lieutenants to declare them selves irremovable, and then we should have so many petty S overeigns throughout the country iaterposetl between the regal Government and the people. The soreness expressed by several Lord-Lieutenants at the determination Lord Chancellor no lonzer to leave that important part of his duty, the no mination to the magistracy, to be exercised at the blind caprice of the Lord-Lieutenants, proves that it was high time to interfere. The Noble and Learned Lori would perhaps have given greater satisfa c ti on t o t h e coun try had he exercised his power of nominating, when Lord- Lieutenants have been par:ial still more unsparingly. In mod of the counties we know the appointments have been very few. We may refer, as an ins:auce, to the barge and populous county of Somerset. In the irmnediat._! neigh b otrhood of B.th only three adltions have ben made to the Commission. On , , a most talented and respectable individual, Mr. Bh-dr, for two iucceedirp.; years Milor of Bath ; the second nomination, Mr. Tudor, a eery re spectable person, but a decided Tory ; the' third is Colonel Bailey, whose app tintment has gis en sa tisfaction to all parties, although he is a zealous and eon'tant supporter of the present Government, one of the heroes of tValerloo, and a commanding officer of a regi ment, fie second Lattalion of the Sazh, on that glorious day. As far as that county is concerned, it cannot at a' I evt.nts be imputed either to the Lord Li,latenant that he has b.-en actuated by party rnoti‘es in his recommendations to the Lord Chancellor, or to the Litter that he has shown any unnecessary desire to exercise his power in an unwar rantable manner. The present Lord Chancellor has won golden opinions from all men on account of his admirably conduct as the head of the first Court of the country ; and the same high qualities which make him one of the best 'udges this country has ever possessed, will secure to the country a better nomination to the magistracy than it has experienced for a long period.—Morning Chronicle. It is to be hoped that the country will not pass over without just reprehension the monstrous claim put forth by Lord John Russell, on behalf of mal-practitioners of all classes who may have the good or evil fortune to be favoured by his Lordship and his colleagues. On Tuesday and Friday last certain questions were put to the Secretary for the Home Department by Lord Ellenborough in the Upper House, and by Lord Chandos and Mr. Herries in the Lower, touching the late appointments made by Lord Durham in Lower Canada, where, under a variety of curious pretences, the Noble Lord had superseded the old Executive Council, and had actually got up the sham re semblance of a new one, by stringing together and gazet ting the names of sundry of his own household (ffcers, and clubbing them " Executive Councillors" to " assist him," forsooth, in carrying on th e B r i t i s h G overnment of North America. Now the persons so appointed, as was shown by Lord Ellenborough (and one of whom was the celebrated Mr. Turton, as appeared from the GaTette), became, by an old custom of the colony, the sole board of audit there—that is to say, the sole board for auditing the accounts of the Executive Government, they themselves forming a portion of the same Executive Government, and the sore instrumental part of it, acting under the supreme commands of Lord Durham—, board, in fact, for doing whatever Lord Durham might order them, and for justify ing by the annexation of their signatures whatever extra vagance he, their chief, might of his own arbitrary will and pleasure entail upon the colony. Lord Ellenborough has the reputation certainly of being a better constitu tional lawyer than my Lord Glenelg. We doubt whe ther he may not have almost equalled the attainments of Mr. Charles Buller, and (the professional ones) of Mr. T. E. M. Turton, and it is stated by Lord Ellen borough to be a doubtful question whether Lord Dur ham, with all the paraphernalia of his dictatorship about him, could legally dissolve the old Executive Council, or displace the persons composing it, except for some sufficient cause, such as misconduct, or so forth. So, Lord Brougham, and afterwards the Duke of Wellington, de clared that whatever powers were vested in Lord Durham belonged to him by virtue of the Act of Parliament passed this Session ; and by that alone ; nor could either of those Peers find authority granted to the Noble Earl in the said Act for dissolving the old Council and governing without any Council ; or, what was precisely the same thing, with a sham Council, constituted of its own immediate crea tures, and void of every particle of freedom in the exer cise of their own judgments. Here, in this debate of the Lords, we see the germ of that sore, jealous, and angry, because frightened, spirit, manifested by the Pre sident of the Council, which subsequently in the House of Commons bore such edifying fruit, when matured by the meditative broodings of Lord John Russell over the acts and prospects of the Durham reign. Lord Lans downe " deprecated" (of course he did) the practice of " raising debates on the spur of the moment," and on detached pieces of Canadian intelligence. With regard to the importent question 9f nominations by the Dictator of the Canadae, and of the salaries to be enjoyed by those who are favoured with his patronage, Lord Chandos intro duced, in the mildest terms, an inquiry, which was followed up with judgment and spirit by Mr. Herries, and addressed to Lord John Russell. The latter Noble Lord conde scendingly admitte4 that it " was a question of which dis cussion might take place whether the principles acted upon by Lord Durham, as announced in the letter signed by his Chief Secretary, Mr. Buller, were sound and wise, or otherwise." He further said, and it was all he could say, that " he felt no doubt of Lord Durham having acted to the best of his judgment." Such is the only satisfaction we are to have for Lord Durham's arrogance of temper, greedi ness of power, and mulishness of will, in unravelling and breaking up the whole of those arrangements which Sir John Colborne, a man incomparably more acute and sagacious than ever Lord Durham could pretend to be, had made for the carrying on of the domestic government of Lower C ana d a . For be it recollected Sir John Col borne had received about the end of last March from Lord Glenelg a copy of the new Act passed this session, for the temporary government of Lower Canada—viz., that Act by which the preciou s C ons tit u tion of the province was sus pended. In pursuance of the powers vested in him by that Act of Parliament, on which Act also rests the entote autho rity of Lord Durham, Sir John proceeded " to constitute a special council for the affairs of Lover Canada, which he did by nominating 21 gentlemen of character and respecta bility, who had sufficient influence in their districts to war rant their being selected for that important office." Now, Sir John Colborne had heats intimately acquainted for the period of I 0 years with the interior of Canadian society, and with the characters of all the leading personsiu the province. Th e judgment of that able officer amid administrator might therefore be relied upon for the accuracy of his choice, as it was made manifest ,byehis announcement of the sort of attributes which he required as qualifications for the duty of special councillor—viz., " character, respectability, and influence in their respective districts." But, besides the selection of special councillors, Sir John Colborne bestowed the deepest consideration on the nature of those rules and ordinances by which the proceedings of the " spe cial council" were to be regulated. Among the papers transmitted home, and printed by Parliament, are copies of no less than 25 rules and orders for methodizing the de spatch of business, asd a list of eleven important or dinances to have the force of laws for the general govern ment of the province, all of date prior to the 18th of April, though subsequent to the end of March, when the new Act for the Government of Canada was received by him —a pretty convincing proof that the time of Sir John Col borne was not frittered away in idle or vain flourishes of arbitrary power. Lord Durham, however, seems to have let the impatience of infant despotism burst the com mon bounds both of decency and prudence. He at once exterminated the special council composed by Sir John Colborne with so much care and skill, and instead of turning to the general uses of good government the zeal or talents of these gentlemen, whose respectable character and social influence had weighed with Sir John Colborne in the choice of them, the autocrat acts as if he were jealous of their official fitness, cashiers them bodily by a stroke of the pen, substituting for their " local influence" the natural growth of years, that of Mr. Charles Buller, the miraculous offspring of four-and-twenty hours ; while to the exclusion of that " respectability of character" so essential to a proper discharge of a special councillor's duties (according at least to the dull speculation of Sir John Colborne), Lord Durham sets up, in awful contrast, the " character and respectability" of Mr. T. E. M. Tur ton, who is to be at once the companion of his Lord ship's pleasures, the solace of his toils, and the sharer of his immortality. We more than guess, from the con eluding passages of Lord John Russell's speech in reply to Mr. Herries, that the sharp and shrewish leader of the House of Commons does not like the bargain he has got of this Canadian " High Commission." In tones as peevish as those of Lord Lansdowne were queru . lous, the leader of the House of Commons confessed that the successful issue of Lord Durham's rule must depend cn the forbearance "of Parliament as to the mode in which the Dictator exercised his functions." Forbearance! Is it come to this ? Why, a man confident in the wisdom or purity of his wen measures would challenge criticism, not flinch from it. A man at peace with himself, and sure of his own principles or objects, would invite prompt and vigilant investigation. Ile would not deprecate it, nor sneakingly I;mp off upon " forbearance." But let us ask, on what plea it is that these Ministers are suppli cating Parliament not to scrutinize too keenly the pro ceedinge of Lord Durham, or to tread too close upon his feotsteps ? In the same sense as that of Lord Lans downe, Lord John Russell exclaims that Parliament "ought assuredly not to interfere at every step which is male by the Noble Lord in the execution of his powers." Now, why should not Parliament so interfere—ay, at every step, where the step appears to be wrong ? Lord Lans downe talks of " pieces," and isolated " facts," &c., as un suitable grounds for the interposition of Parliament. But an act which is single may also in itself be complete. A solitary murder is a perfect act. Must it not be made the subject of inquiry ? The demolition of the Special Coun sel o Lower Canada, which had been created by Sir John Colborne under the new Act of Parlianent, is, so far as we are now informed, an act of illegal and arbitrary power. Shall it be entirely overlooked, on the mere pretext of its being a detached performanc ? Must we wait for a long context of two more years of misrule before we charge Lord Darham with perpetrating, by the promotion of T. E. M. Tut ton, a gross and flagrant violation of every la's of de cency—an audecious iesult to every civilized and Christian mind in the community? Why, on such assumptions we are to let iniquity go on, and neeer in'erpore to check it, at this side the po - nt, beyond which its con-equences become altogether irretrieeable. No, no! Lord Durham is a ma's to be wee cacti ; he is a mart to be checked—to be bridled at every tu-n—to be presented, even for his own sake, that he may not be punished. Moreove-, he is not a man for great or difEcult crises. Never s;nce he was been has Lord Durham been tried by danger or difficulty, or , nor elty of posit;en. In Russia, where alone he ever was 500 miles from the central power under which lie acted, ire did not act at all ; he wai acted upon. The Russ'ans knew him. They flatte7el Lim, caressed him, blinded him, Liug:.e I at him, pu• seed their own course in spite of him, and set him ho.:,e bedizened steth stets and ribands—tie price of se: vices not conspicuous fur their British spirit. For what was Sir Stratford Canning repudiated by Russia? For what was the Earl of Durham cherished ? But because she Earl of Durham betrayed inclinations and principles the reverse of those for which Sir S. Canning is to this day abhorred by Nicholas? There are stripes, as well as well as stars, in the United States, and in Canada there are no decorations.—Times. SECOND EDITION. SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT, (THIS EVENING.) H 0 USE OF COMMONS. The SPEAKER took the chair at Four o'Clock. BRITISH LEGION. Mr. Byng, the Comptroller of the Household, appeared at ' the bar with the answer of her Majesty to the address of the House, agreed to on the 26th of June, praying her Majesty to use her good offices with the Government of Spain for the purpose of obtaining an amicable and equitable adjustment of the claims of British officers, non-commissioned officer'', and privates of the British Legion. Her Majesty assured her faithful Commons that her best exertions should be used for the purpose of carrying their wishes into effect, and that she had directed instructions to be given to the British Am bassador at Madrid to effect that object. MIDDLESEX COUNTY COURTS BILL. Mr. CRAWFURI) moved the further cousideration of the Middlesex County Courts Bill. Captain WOOD rose to make the Motion of which he had given notice, that this Bill be recommitted. From tho return that had been laid on the table, it appeared that, since 1830, there had bean entertained in that Court 30,000 plaints, there had been 9,000 writs of execution, and 1,100 persons had been imprisoned under the jurisdiction of this Court. In addition to all this it was prop ased by the present Bill that the law of landlord and tenant should be entertained in that court. It might, at first sight, be imagined that the jurisdiction of the Middlesex County Court was raised by this Bill from 40s. to 10/. ; such was neither the effect nor the intention of the Bill—which was, to preserve the County Court in its present state up to 405., and to institute another court for suits be tween 40s. and 10/., enabling the Crown to appoint a judge. He (Mr. Wood) thought this objectionable ; for there should, in his opinion, be one Court and one presiding Jndge. He should propose various amendments, to which end he moved the re-committal of the bill. Lord DUNGANNON seconded the motion. Mr. FRE S H FIE L D said the Hon. Member for Middlesex (Captain Wood) had himself stated that many thousand cases had been decided in the Middlesex County Court, from which it appeared, as Justice Blackstone had stated, that this Court had been of the greatest use in character and reputation.— ( Hear.) The Hon. Member had complained that a separate Court was to be instituted for the recovery of debts from 40s. to 10/. If it had been the same Court, it would have been objected that new privileges ought not to be conferred upon the Court. He (Mr. Freshfield) considered it much better that there should be a separate Court for suits up to 10/. ; and he was greatly surprised when he heard the Member for Middlesex object to a Bill which was calcu lated, he believed, to confer more real benefit upon the people of Middlesex than any Bill which had ever passed regarding that county.—( Hear.) Was it not an improper state of things, when actions had to be brought in the superior Courts for sums so low as 3/. or 4/ ?—( Hear, hear.) Was the House aware that in Middlesex there were pecu liar advantages conferred by this Court, and which would be extended to other Courts?—that for several days of the week the Court was sitting—that for one week in the month the judge went a circuit, bringing home justice to every mates door, so that causes could be tried at different places at the least possible expense. The objection urged was, that Courts were not presided over by persons of competent knowledge. Here was a Court presided over by a gentleman of twenty years standing, against whose judgment not the slightest doubt was entertained. In answer to the difficulties of his Hon. Friend, he could only say the Act was to continue for one year and one Session afterwards, and therefore if the Government brought in a general measure, that would super sede the Act ; and if not, it would come again under the con sideration of the House ; and if it had not succeeded, it would not be renewed.—( Hear, hear.) Sir B. HALL cordially concurred in everything which had fallen from the Hon. Member who had just sat down, and he could not see that any reason had been brought forward by the Hon. Member in favour of the recommittal of the Bill. The Committee had beer, sitting day after day for three weeks, and the Bill had cum,' out in as perfect a form as could be desired.—( Hear.) With regard to the argument adduced by the Hon. and Gallant Member, he ( Sir B. Hall) could only say that he was correct in stating, that out of 30,000 cases, 1,152 persons were imprisoned, and that 7,267 execution s went against the body, whilst there were only 15 against the goods. The object of this Bill was to remedy that grievance Although the Bill was not so good as it might be made, it was most deairahle that it should be passed, and if it was found to work well it would lay the groundwork upon which the Go vernment could establish a general measure for the country.— ( Hear, hear. ) Mr. PR AED supported the Bill. Ile was satisfied that it would meet with general approval. Strangers were then ordered to withdraw, and the Hone divided. wlirm the numbers were— For the recommitmere 5 Against it BO Majority • 75 Th e 13, pert w)s then taken into further consideration, THE SUN, LONDON, MONDAY, JULY 1,838. % ~ NINTATIONAL• LOAN FUND BILL_ Sir B. HALL moved the third reading of the above Bill. After a pause, Mr. P. THOMSON' came running in, and said, I shall object to the Bill being read a third time. The Government has a measure in contemplation to amend the Act of last year, which will, govern not only the present one, but all other Billa similarly situated.—( Hear, hear.) I hope the House will not give the power to one Company while it does not give it to all. lam perfectly aware that many Companies have refrained from asking for such powers in ex pectation of a general measure, and therefore I think it will be impruer to give it to one particular Company. Though I am aware that there has been a great canvass in favour of this Bill, still I think it my duty to divide the House upon the question. Mr. O'CONNELL considered that nothing could be more unfair than such opposition. The Bill was brought in, and had been postponed on the very same ground, that the Go vernment were going to bring in a general measure. The Government had obtained leave to bring in such a Bill, but that Bill had not been brought in at the present moment. Mr. P. THOMSON—It is in the House. Mr. O'CONNELL—Then it must be in the Right Hon. Gentleman's pocket—that can be the only way in which it can have found its way into the House.—( Laughter.) If this Bill be delayed longer, and the Right Honourable Gen tleman's Bill is not brought in, it w'ont have time to get through the Lords.—( Hear ' hear.) That this is a right measure, is admitted by the Right Hon. Gentleman, and he says he is actually going to make it the general law of the land. If he is going to make it the general law of the land, this Bill will not be necessary. If the Government carry the general Bill, that moment the promoters of this Bill under take to stop in the Lords. The_Company require nothing but that their creditors should have the power of suing them, and that they may have a remedy against each other for defaults committed by one partner—that is all the Bill seeks. Ought that Bill to be prevented from going to the House of Lords, where the parties undertake (and I undertake for them) to stop the Bill, as soon as it is manifest a Government Bill is likely to pass ? This is the second time we have dis cussed this Bill. On the former occasion we were promised a Government Bill before this Bill went through Committee. That Bill has not yet been brought before the House, although the other Bill has arrived at its last stage, and under those circumstances, I hope the House will allow it to pass. Mr. WALLACE said, a clause that had been very much objected to—the non-liability clause—was not in this Bill, as was generally supposed. There had been very great reasons stated by the Hon. Member for Dublin in favour of the Bill ; and, notwithstanding he agreed with the Right Hon. Gentle man the President of the Board of Trade as to the general measure, yet he felt bound, under all the circumstances, to support the Bill for the present. Mr. O'CONNELL said the liability was complete, and if the Bill passed, execution could at once be issued when the claim had been substantiated. Sir E. SUGDEN said this Company was endeavourinr , to obtain a remedy which no Company had hitherto possessed, ° and he thought that was not quite right. The Govern ment had declared it to be their intention to bring in a general Bill upon the subject; and when thdt Bill was introduce], he should be ready to give it his b-st conside ration. In the meantime he must object to this Company— of which he knew nothing, nor desired to know anything— Leing vested with powers possessed by no other Company; and on that ground he should oppose the Bill. Mr. PRAED said the 'Bill did not give this Company an advantage over other Companies, though it did give that Company something not possessed by others, which was a facility to the members of that Company to sue one another. The whole pestion lay in a nutshell. An Act had been passed, intended to give such facility—it was found not to have that effect. The Company came, therefore, to that Howe, and applied for the power of suing each other. " No," said the Right Honourable Gentleman (Mr. P. Thomson) " you ought to have it—all Companies ought to have it. I have a Bill in my pocket giving this power to all Companies—therefore }ou shall not have it." If this BM passed, and a general measure afterwards passed, giving the same power to all Companies, what ill effect cauld follow? On the other hand, if the general measure did not pass, a great benefit would in the case of this Company be effected. Air. HUAIE said he had known several Bills passed giving the same power as this Bill conferred. He bad jetted, indeed, to partial legislation, and had urged the Go vern neat to tiring in a general measure; but was it fair, if the Government would not take that cou-se, to stop a most use fel Bill ? He thought the proposal that the Bill should Le stcp;)cd in the Lords, if the general Bill were brought r. ar d , a ye y fair and reasonable one; and he hoped the House oul 1 agree to the third reading of the Ilear. ) Si: B. HALL was quite ready to agree that the Bill I e stopped in the other House, if the general measure were introduced. The Bill had been brought in very early in the session, and the second reading pos'poned, because the Right Hon. Gentleman asked for a delay of three weeks to bring in a geaeral Bill. Six weeks had passed —( Hear)—and now, at the close of the session almost, the Government opposed the third relding of the Bill. Was not that a bad case? Mr. P. THOMSON said, after what had fallen from the Hon Baronet, he must say a word in explanation. lie stated at the very first t ,at lie would give this Bill his opposition, in asmuch as he thought it would be improper for a special Bill of this kind to pass. The House might decide as it pleased, tut he considered himself bound, after what had taken place with respect to other Companies, to prevent, if possible, the pusing of this Bill. With respect to the Bill which he bad introduced, it was not his fault that it had not been proceeded with more rapidly. . Sir J. GRAHAM said that it was impossible for any one to bo more oppoied to partial legislation than himself. hit w:th respect to the ixesent Bill, the period of the session at which they had arrived, required it to receive a favourable consideration. If lie bad any hope that the Bill of the Hon. Gentleman opposite would pass during the present Session, he would not vote for the third reading of tl.i3 Bill; but, con sidering the advanced period of the Session, he was convinced it could not pass, and therefore should vote for the third read. ing of the present Bill. Mr. FRE SHFIE LD said it was the right of a creditor to haveiffe r e his t members executionie ersof a Company. in any o proportionoy. I f 1 heo members could against f a tie different company paid 101. each more than their share, each of these 100 members must bring his 100 actions, not against one individual, b ut against every member of the Company, to recover from that member his particular contribution to this very payment by the individual member. Where the relation of partnership subsisted it required to be dealt with in a different way from actions at common law, and he hoped the Bill to be brought in by the Hon. Member would provide for the difficulties which the present Bill did not provide for, but tended to increase. Mr. O'CONNELL said there was no remedy against part ners but by a bill in equity ; and he appealed to the Honour able Member whether he had the heart to drive so many of his fellow -creatures into a Court of Equity.—( Laughter.) If one of the winners died during the proceedings, fresh pro eeediugs should be instituted, and the result was that there was actually no remedy at all. Was that species of legisla tion to be continued?—(Hear, hear.) He hoped not, and that the goo d sense o f t h e H ouse would be evinced b y its sup port of the present measure.—( Hear, hear.) After a few words from Sir E. SIJGDEN, Strangers were ordered to withdraw, and the House divided, when the numbers were : For the thi r d rea di ng Against it .................................... 38 Majority 7l cheTchriengß.ill was then re a d a thi r d t i me an d passed, amid loud ASHB Y - DE-LA-ZOUCH SMALL DEBTS BILL. This Bill was read a third time and passed. HARTLEPOOL DOCK AND RAILWAY. Lord DUNGANNON moved the further consideration of the Report of the Hartlepool Dock and Railway Bill. Mr. CAYLEY could not agree to the motion, and moved, as an amendment, that the Bill be further considered that day three months. The gallery was then cleared for a divisiun. The House divided, when there appeared— For the motion 63 For the amendment 47 Majority —l6 The report was then ordered to be engrossed Petitions were presented by Sir W. JAMES and another Hon. Member, praying for increased ecclesiastical provision for the inhabitants of Canada ; also against further grants to the College of Maynooth. PROTESTANT DISSENTERS' REGISTRY. Mr. BAINES asked if a report had been received from the Commission which bad been appointed atnose:earmaiener:o.vt: validity of a certain reg'stry of Protestant Dissenters ? And whether it would be laid before the House this Session ? Lord J. RUSSELL was understood both questions. PENSION COMMITTEE. Captain PECHELL asked when the report of the Pen sions' Committee would be received, and if the evidence would be printed? The CHANCELLOR of the EXCHEQUER'S reply, as far as we decisive answer t und o eithedr erstoo, question was, that he could not give any q u estions to the C. Sir Sir E. SUGDEN wi put some Noble Lord (J. Russell) respecting Canada. The Act passed this session suspended the functions of the Legialative Council and Legislative Assembly, and authorizes the Go vernor to appoint a Special Council. By a dispatch published it was stated that twenty-one persons had been appointed for a Special Council, d e ", of whom were French Canadians, two others natives, and the remainder of them, he supposed, Frit' sh subjects ; and a Session was held in which twenty-s . x aws wee pased. Sir John Colborne dissolve l d the Ce r uneil, s and b Early i n May 3r a dispatch of about the same date stated the satisfaction he hid experienced from the unanimity and good conduct of the Council, and that ho believed their ordinances had been received with the greatest approbation. He wanted to know whether Government had authorized, by instructions, Lord Durham to not simply t ) appoint an Executive Council, but also to re. move the existing Special Council. and to appoint a new Special Council; and whether the Noble Lord obj ecte d to lay on the table of the HOUFC the instructions on these subjects, or either of them, with other papers, if necessary. 14 --0 a.so w ante d t , )lxt.ovr %s Nether the Noble Lord was aware how many persor s, and whom had been appointed to the two Councils—whe th.)r they ex, eed , d five in numl er, and were the same persons ? And the que,tion aS, whet' er the Government bad abandoned and %bother it appeared by any instructions to Lord Durham an intension was expressed in the despatch from Lord Gipn, to during the cli<cussions in the house upon the bill, that he was to have a Convention of the States or Delegates, in on'er to ascertain the opinions of Upper and Lower Can ada. ho s rd :JOHN RUSSELL said he would endeavour to answer the question put by., the hon. gentleman to the best of his power. With regard the Executive Council and th.e necessity for special instructions, on that point the Governor having the power to appoint for a time such persons to be members of the Executive Council as he should think fit, Lord Durham had made use of that power by summoning to his Council certain persons whose names had appeared. The ndmber of those persons was five, and all of them connected in some way or other with the Government of Lower Canada. With respect to the appointment of the Special Council, Lord Durham had authority given him to appoint a number of per sons, not less than five by his own Act, to form part of that Special Council. The papers which were about to be given to the other House of Parliament he should have no objection to produce. The Right Hon. Gentleman made a correct in fere!sce when he said that as Lord Durham had thought it ex pedient to call persons to his Executive Council not connected with the parties in the province, he would probably follow the same principle in the selection of his Special Council. With respect to the further question of the Right Hon. Gen tleman, whether the instructions that had been laid on the table were abandoned, his answer was, that these instructions remained in the same situation, and there had been no variation or abandonment of them.—( Hear, hear.) He was persuaded Lord Durham had used his best discretion in the exercise of the authority that had been vested in him. The prin ciples on which Lord Durham had proceeded had met with general concurrence, as expressed in addresses from various parts of the provinces. Mr. HUME thought it would be much fairer for the consi deration of this question if the Right Hon. Gentleman would move for the production of papers ; that would give many an opportunity of commenting on what had fallen from the Right Hon. Gentleman, because he had made many observations well worthy of consideration, especially when it was recollected the Right Hon. Gentleman and his party had concurred with Ministers in giving arbitrary power to the Government. Lord J. RUSSELL (in answer to a further question from Sir E. Sugden) said he had no objection to the production of the letter signed by Mr. C. Buller. MORNING SITTINGS. Lord DUNGANNON asked whether it was the intention of the Government to introduce for discussion measures of im portance, similar for instance to the Irish Tithe Bill, at the morning sittings, because it was next to impossible for Mem bers who had many demands on their time to attend in that House. Lord JOHN RUSSELL thought it was perfectly possible for all Members to attend the House from twelve to four. at an expense of 5,000/. to the country, but had never been in any public office; and Colonel Napier had been refused by Sir George Murray (who lie had been told had possession of the surveys), permission t.) inspect them ; and it now aupeared SURVEY OF THE PENINSULA. Mr. LEADER wished to put a question to the Secretary at War (Lord Hoick) in regard to certain surveys of the Peninsula, which had been made at the close of the Peninsular war by Captain Mitchell. These surveys had been made that these sun eys were to be published by private speculation. Was Vii s a correct statement? Lord 110 WICK said all the informationhe could give upon the subject was contained in a return already before the House. The surveys had not been made through the War-cffiee, nor had they ever passed through that office. Mr. LEADER said, if he could get no information on the subject, he should give an early notice respecting it. Mr. O'CONNE LL asked if the Chancellor of the Ex chequer could furnish no information respecting this expenditure of 50001. of the public money; representing, as he did, the Exchequer of the period when those surves were made Sir 11. HA RD IN G E rose, and was (LEFT SITTING). HOUSE OF LORDS. The House met at four o'clock. e.hen ✓ Lora Lismore was introduced by Lords Howard de Walden awl Glime!g, when he tool•: the owl's and hi; seat, upon his elcv;tioa to the ILizish Peerage. The LOTH) CHANCELLOR resumed his seat on the Woolsack at five o'clock. The Duke of CLEVELAND presented numerous peti tions from the county of Durham and the North Riding of the county of York, praying for the iromediwe abolition of the apprenticeship in the West Indies. The Earl of RADNOR wished to ask a quesri , n of the Noble Duke and the Noble Marquis, the Chancellors of the Universities of Oxford and Carxbridge, and he hoped that he might be allowed to premise it wit❑ a few observaions. Last year the ll.:use was led to believe that the Universities were intending to make great alter itions in their statutes—the Colleges had done nothing, and the Uni versity in Convoca'iou had done something that actually amounted to nothing. Afier stating that he had been de ceived, he begged tl ask the two heads of the Universities what had been done to carry out the promises of last year ? The Duke of WELLINGTON complained that the Noble Earl had not correctly quoted the dissuasion of last year. The House last Sessio❑ threw out the Bill proposed by the Noble Earl, and then he had stated that the work of revising the statutes of the University was already in operation. The Noble Earl had not only asked a question, but had answered it himself, and to comment upon what had been done by the Uni, ersity of Oxford. The Noble Earl had not only commented upon what had been done with his usual ac cumen, but he had been prompted by the Noble Baron, the Chancellor of the Welty of Lancaster. Now, he thought the Universities w.re entitled to look for encouragement and support from her Majesty's Ministers against any such question as had been put—( Hear, hear, hear)—in place of one of them assisting and prompting one of their enemies. Ile thought the Noble Earl had answered his own question, but he had no objection to say that the University of Oxford had commenced to review the Statutes, but he refused to give any other answer. He called upon the House to allow the heads of the University to go on in the consideration of their own Statutes, and when they had finally done so, if the House did not approve of the changes they had made, then would be the time for their Lordships' interference —( Cheers.) The Marquis of CAMDEN rose, and was (LEFT SPEAKING.) COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.) Ships arrived since Per lon. s. d. Artair's l7 9 Bute's Tanfield Moor l9 0 Original Win.lgor Pontop Russell's High Main l6 6 South Tan field South Hartley is 6 Wylina W , lls End Re w i e k e an d Co ;2l 0 Walls End Br own ' s Walls End H ea t on 2O 9 Walls E n d K illingworth Walls E n d Nerwmareh l9 0 Walls End P er ki ns Walls End Ridd e ll' s .. . last market-day, ___...... rer '1 on S. d. Walls End Braddyll's Hetton 2410 Walls End Hetton 23 3 Walls End Lambton 23 3 Walls End Lyons 2l 6 Walls End Stewart's 23 3 Walls End Hartlepool 23 6 Dixon's Butterknowl l6 3 Walls End Barrett 2O 9 Walls End Deanery l9 3 Walls End Seymour Tees Walls End South Dt.rham 2O 6 Walls End St. Helen's Tees 2O 9 Walls End Tees 2l 6 Walls End West Tees l9 9 A very numerously attended meeting, which was conducted with great spirit, took place at the Town Hall, on Thursday evening, relative to the encroachments on the downs, and the nume rous Pathways and roads that have been stopped up in the vicinage of this town. It is not long since that the Lords of the Manor tried to monopolise all the sand and beach, and to compel every builder to purchase those materials of them. Through the public spirit of the inhabitants that arbitrary design was frustrated; but that sinks into Insignificance when compared with the encroachments which have been Made upon public property in every part of Brighton, and which en croachments, we trust, will be as successfully resisted as was the attempt to monopolise the sand and beach. We have hundreds of poor rogues committed lo the treadmill for petty thefts; but it would seem that some popular men can stand by and see the town robbed of its public lands by wholesale without uttering one word of remonstrance or making the least attempt to do justice on the wholesale robbers.— Brighton Herald. ROLLS' COURT, FRIDAY.—Lord Langdale gave judgment iii the case cf " Tarleton v. Barnes," which, he observed, came before the Court upon a plea, alleging that in March, 1832, the plaintiff filed a bill against him in the Court of Exchequer respecting the same matter, and that upon being served with process, he on the 25th of April, 1835, appeared and put in a plea, which was allowed, but that the suit was not dismissed, and was still pending. The question raised was, whether the allowance of the plea in the Court of Exchequer (which was referred to in the present plea) determined the suit, and operated as a dismissal of the bill. He had inquired into the practice of the Court of Exchequer, and with some variation in respect of costs, it was substan tially similar to the practice in this Courtin similar cases. On the allow ance of such a plea in the Court of Exchequer, the defendant obtained 30s. costs ; but the effect was not to dismiss the bill and put an end to the suit. If the case was such that the effect of the plea could not be avoided by the amendment of the bill, the allowance of the plea would be an effectual bar to any further prosecution of the suit, but the bill was not consequently dismissed. He must allow the plea, and also the costa of the suit. Accounts from all parts of the ccuntry speak of the wheat crop as prodigiously improved within the last fortnight; indeed, it is everywhere coming into ear most propitiously. CURIOUS CUSTOM.—In the parishes of Congres bury and Puxton, Somersetshire, are two large pieces of common land, called East and West Dolemoors (from the Saxon dal, which signifies a share or portion), which are divided into single acres, each bearing a peculiar and different mark cut in the turf—such as a horn, four oxen, and a mare, two oxen and a mare, a pole-axe, cross, dung fork, oven, duck's nest, band-reel, and a hare's tail. On Old Midsummer Day sere. ral proprietors of the :estates in the parishes of Congresbury, Puxton, and Week St. Lawrence, or their tenants, assemble on the commons. A number of apples are previously prepared, marked in the same manner with the before.mentioned act es, which are distributed by a young lad to each of the commoners, from a bag or hat. At the close of the dis. tribution each person repairs to his allotment, as his apple directs him, and takes possession for the ensuing year. An adjournment then takes place to the house of the overseer of the Dolemoors (an officer an nuallY elected from the tenants), where four acres, reserved f or the lair_ pose of paying expenses, are let by inch of candle, and the remainder of the day is spent in sociability and hearty mirth. The Prince de Ligne's banquet, given yesterday at the Clarendon Hotel, was In a style of extraordinary magnificence. The table was placed in the celebrated banqueting room built by the first Earl of Buckinghamshire. In the centre of the table was a plateaux of silver gilt, which is said to hare cost twelve thousand pounds. The guests consisted of the Duke de Nemours, Marshal Soult, Prince Ester hazy, Prince Schwarzenberg, Count Strogonoff, and th e ot h er Ambassa dors Extraordinary, &c. The Gazette des Tribunaux states that for some time past the police have been aware of the existence of a formidable band of thieves, nearly sixty in number, and composed principally of old offenders. Many of thes e ha v e been taken with evident proofs of their guilt ; but a few days since a most important capture was made of a iamily, named Roux, Consiring of a father, mother, three sans, and two daughters-in-law, who lived in the Rue des Hosiers, near the Mont-de- Piete, but had depots for their stolen articles in different parts of Paris. Th e se have been discovered and searched, and clocks, watches, plate, j ewe ls, linen, and other articles to such an amount werediscovered, that it required two carts to convey them to the Prefecture. The number of this band, and the extent of thcir robberies, have been attributed to the vicious system of allowing liberated convicts to take up their domicile in large towns, under surveillance, it is true, but which they soon contrite to evade. This system will, it is said, in consNitei.ce of this discovery be altered. • LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OP CHANCERY, Jury 7 U. MORGAN This was an appeal from the Vice-Chancellor on the con struction of the will of Mr. Boys, who died in 1836. This will, dated in June, 1835, was singular in its language. " To mv friends and relations who may be curious to in quire be - it known that a few years back, of my own free will, I gave to Eliza Morgan all my furniture, table and bed linen, and apparel, plate, watches, and trinkets of any kind then in my possession, pianoforte, all my .MSS., li brary i papers, &c., whatever have been added and may hereafter be added previous to my decease, without any exception whatever, to her sole use and disposal, under promise from her that she will take care that I shall never be in want of any article es long as I live. Having at tained to the eighty-second year of my existence, and finding the infirmity of age increasing, I chose to give her this voucher of the truth that none may trouble or question her to make declaration of it. She knoweth that thirty years ago, I agreed with Dr. Hector Campbell that he should have my carcass for chemical and anatomical experiments, to be by him performed on it, if he could prevail on her to give it him. Doubting her compliance I will trouble my head no more about it. The world may think this arises from a spirit of singu larity ; be this as it may, I have always had a mental aversion to funeral pomp and expense, and therefore would rather be given away, with the stun a funeral would cost, fur purposes of dissection and chemical experiments. I guess there is sutlicient in my hanker's hands to defray and discharge my debts which I wish Eliza Morgan to do, and keep the residue for her own use and pleasure." The question raised by the will was, whether the residue of the estate, after the payment of debts, passed to Eliza Morgan, who had cohabited with the testator for many years before his death. The LORD CHANCELLOR, after a careful examination of the will, could not entertain the slightest doubt that the gift of the residue was a general disposition of the whole of the testator's property in favour of' Eliza Morgan, after the payment of debts. On the whole, his Lordship thought the Vice-Chan cellor was right, and dismissed the appeal, but without costs, as he could not say it was not a matter for reconsideration by another court. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, JULT 7. ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE EARL OF MANSFIELD. BE HIGHGATE SCHOOL. Mr. Knight Bruce stated that this petition was presented by the relators in compliance with the request of several of the most influential inhabitants of Highgate, who conceived that it would be of very general advantage that means should be provided for the appointment of an additional master in the school, and an opportunity of making such an arrangement now occurred, which might not happen again for many years to come. The present master of the school had been lately presented to a living, a?d had given notice of his inten tion to retire. Now, therefore, was the time, if ever, that a provision should be made to meet the views of the peti tioners, before the appointment of another gentleman, per haps in the promise of life, whose vest.‘d interests might retard the contemplated improvement for the next fifty years. This information was filed many years ago to establish the relative rights of a grammar school and a chapel at gighgate, which were endowed in the year 1565 by Sir Roger Cholmoley. The decree was pronounced in the year 1826 by Lord Eldon, which declared as regarded the school that the charity founded by Sir Roger Cholmeley is a charity for the sustentation and maintenance of a free grammar school for teaching the learned languages, and a reference was made to the Master to approve of a scheme for the future manage mont and regulation of the charity, as such charity as the same was thereby declared to be, having reference and regard to the statutes and ordinances proved in the suit, or which should be proved before him to have been duly made for the regula tion of the charity, so far as the same could be applied to the then present state of the revenues of the charitable foundation. After 11. , ar 7 ng the statements of Counsel at considerable len zth, his honour, in giaing judgment, said he must at present act upon the principle of Lord Eldon in the case of the Leeds school, in which his Lordship said " I do not appre hend it is competent to this Court, as long as it can find any means of applying the charitable fund to the charity as created by the founder, upon atiy general notion that any other appli cation would be more beneficial to the inhabitants of the place to change the nature of the charity." His Honour, therefore, refused the prayer of the petition. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, JULY 7. COOPER V. LAWSON. This was an action for a libel published in the Times news paper. The defendant had pleaded a justification. Mr. TIIESSIGER stated the case. The circumstances out of which the libel arose were shortly these. At the last general election two Conservatives, Mr. Hodgson and Mr. W. Holmes, were elected Members for the town of Barwick-upon-Tweed. A petition was presented against their return, and the plain tiff and another person became their sureties for the due pro secution of the petition. Two officers were appointed under the Act of Parliament relating to such matters to exa mine into the sufficiency of tendered sureties. The one was Mr. Ley, the Chief Clerk of the House of Commons, the other was a Master in Chancery. Mr. Cross, one of the Masters, was appointed on this occasion. The plaintiff was of Liberal principles, ant therefore, thoufzli not directly con nected with the town of Berwick upon-Tweed, but resident in London, he joined another gentleman in offering himself as surety for the petitioners. This was in December, 1837. For a year before this time he had been carrying on business as a factor in Suffolk -street, Pall-mall East: but, previously to the close of 1836, he had been in partnership with a person named Creer. In December, 1836, that partnership was dis solved, and the plaintiff then began business on his own account. His house in Suffolk-street was very hand somely furnished. His business was worth 3,0001. He had other property, and there was, therefore, no doubt that he could truly describe himself in a recognizance as worth 5001. after the payment of all his debts. lie did so describe himself. It was important for the Conservative patty to prevent or to stifle the petition, if possible, so they succeeded in procuring two persons, named Bedwood and Smith, to come forward before the Committee to dispute the sufficiency of the suref es. The libel, as it appeared in the Times, was copied from the Berwick Warder, but was headed, " More exposures." The Learned Counsel here read the libel, which stated, in substance, that neither of the sureties (the plaintiff being one of them) had the slightest connection with Berwick-upon-Tweed, but that both of them had been procured for a job, "no doubt for a consideration." The libel then went on to declare that the agent for the sitting member was in a condition to rebut all this repetition of the parties' hard swearing, and asked, in his turn, for time to do so. The clerk of the plaintiff's attorney proved the publication. The ATTORNEY•GENERAL after evidence had been gone into, on behalf of the defendant, considered the evidence brought forward for the plaintiff to be a most miserable failure. The jury retired for about an hour and twenty minutes, and then returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, JULY 7. CLIFTON V LAKIN. This was an action of crim. con. _ _ Mr. KELLY, in opening the plaintiff's case, said that he ap peared there in behalf of a man in humble circumstances, who carried on his business as a dyer in the town of Romford, in Essex. Previously to the unfortunate occurrence which gave rise to the present action, he understood that the plaintiff's wife had always conducted herself in a highly respectable manner, and the plaintiff had no reason to suspect her of any improprieties ; she had always appeared attached to her hus band, and a fond and affectionate mother to her children. The defendant was a gentleman of independent fortune, who had resided in the neighbourhood of Epping, and he was sorry to add, that he was a married man, and the father of a family. Now, on the 29th of May, 1837, the defend ant went in the course of the morning to the plaintiff's shop, left a handkerchief to be dyed, and gave his own name. Previously to that visit the plaintiff was not aware of any communications or correspondence which might have taken place between his wife and the defendant ; but, how ever, it would appear in evidence before them that on the same day, between the hours of twelve and one, Mrs. Clifton, and Mr. Larkin were conversing in the public st ree t s o f R om f ord. After that interview Mrs. Clifton went home to dinner, and after dinner went out with a boy on some errand connected with the business. She left the boy, desiring him to wait for her, and proceeded out of the high road into a small lane to a very retired and unfrequented spot, when she met Mr. Larkin. It did, however, happen, notwithstanding the nature of the place, that some men at work i n a ne i g hb our i ng f arm called the Little Pettits, saw them in conversation together in the lane, and that one of those men, having watched their pro ceedings, actually saw some things which could leave no doubt as to the fact that criminal intercourse had taken place between the parties. He understood that the crime was committed at a gateway which retired some short distance from the lane. This occurred on Monday, May 29; and the facts having reached the plaintiff's ears, nothing was left to him but to adopt the course which he had pursued. Subsequent to the disco very of her disgrace, Mrs. Clifton had exhibited the deepest mental distress ; and, indeed, that distress had so far over come her reason that she had attempted, but in vain, to destroy herself. Mr. Sergeant Wit,DE addressed the Jury on behalf of ,the defendant, after which s. _ The Jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages 501. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. UNION HALL. FURTHER MAGISTERIAL INVESTIGATION INTO THE LAMBETH NIURDER.—Messrs. Jeremy and Traill were engaged some hours in t'-eir private room investigating the circumstances at tending this mysterious tr,u'edv. The news that the owner of the gloves which were found at the of the bed of the mur dered woman had been traced by the police, spread, as might be supposed with talismanic effect among the inhabitants of Lambeth, and there appeared throughout the morning to be no abatement of public excitement and curiosity to obtain the facts that might be elicited. Mr. PELIIANI, the solicitor, attended to conduct the pro. ceecliugs on bealf of the decease3's relittives, and Inspector Field wai present by direction of the Metropolitan Police Commissioners. The object of the present inqiiiry was to ascertain how far the onner of the gloves had any knowledge of the deceased, and in the course of the investigation some extraordinary and highly important, not to say conclusive, points, bearing upon the p,:rpe:rator of the deed, were disclosed, which, however, at the present stage of the proceedings, it would be injuf, cious to give publicity to, as they might interfere with the ex ertions of the police, and consequently thwart the ends of jus tice. The gloves, which bore the initials " S. K. T.," were it will be remembered by our readea, of a dark lavender colour i and the circumstance of their being discovered led to the sup position that neither the " fore'gner," who was said to have (kee, sea home, was nu ire Binary hieii Oar that th, pr,:ductioh of the soi di.sarst " John Walter Cavendish" was an invention to gratify a depraved taste. The labour and indefatigability of Inspector Field, assisted by Mr. Pelham, has been of no ordinary kind to bring :bout the present investigation. Soon after the magistrates had commenced the usual night charges, Mr. skinner, jun., the extensive tobacconist near Temple.bar, accompanied by two friends, together with a gill of the town named Chaplin and another female, entered the justice room, when the public business was forthwith suspended, and the following evidence was entered into before the magistrates in an adjoin ing room. TMr. Skinner recollected visiting the woman Chaplin in January last, at her lodgings, No. 39, East street, Red Lion street, Holborn. Ile then had a pair of lavender kid gloves on, which he had previously purchased at the shop of Mr. Cording, a glover, res'ding in the Strand. He was not aware that he left his gloves behind him at Chaplin's. He was not at all acquainted with the deceased, Eliza Grimwood, nor was he aware that Chaplin was connected by relationship to her until some time after the murder had Leen committed. Sub sequent to that event, on his visiting Chaplin, she fell down on her knees and cried violently, and on his inquiring the cause he ascertained that the ill-fated Grim wood was Chap lin's aunt. Witness was ill during February, and did not visit Chaplin ; but it was quite possible he might have left the gloves at her place in January. Caroline Chaplin was niece to the deceased woman, Eliza Grimwood, anti lived at No. 39, East -street, Red Lion-street. She recollected seeing the gloves produced at her lodging in February last. The deceased ca ll e d upon w i tness in Fe bruary, which was the only time she had seen the deceased for the last three years. She could not tell how the gloves came to be found at the house, No. 12, Wellington -terrace. She could not say whether the deceased or witness's companion took them away. She recollected taking them out of her drawers and cleaning a teapot with them. They were too large, and she was about to throw them into the fire when Rebecca, her companion, asked her for them, but whether she took them or not witness did not know. By Mr. PELTlAM.—Witness went to No. 12, Wellington terrace, on the Sunday after the murder, and there she saw Hubbard and his mother, with Best and the girl Glover. On her entering the passage Hubbard seized her by the hand and threw himself down upon his knees and exclaimed, " Oh, oh, oh 1" Witness requested him to get up, which he did ; and, in answer to her inquiries, he told her that he supposed some foreigner had wanted to do something against Eliza's will, and that her refusal had caused her to be murdered. He also said he had heard the dog bark during the night, and he felt S 3 strange that he could not sleep. About four o'clock he came down stairs and saw that Eliza had been murdered; he put her hands to her breast, and saw her eyes mvve. Mr. Best then interposed, and said Hubbard must be mistaken, to VI hich the latter replied, " I tell you that her eyes were open ; 31E: looked at me, and I never shall forget the look she gave me." [This evidence, which is quite new, made an evident im pression upon the Magistrates and upon Mr. Pelham.] Mr. Skinner was asked by the Bench if he accompanied the deceased home on the night previous to the discovery of thu murder, when he answered in the negative. Rebecca Ryan formerly lived with the woman Chaplin, and that she was now living at a house of ill-fame, No. 2, Ann street, Waterloo road. She could not identify the gloves now produced, but she recollected seeing a similar pair in Chaplin's possession. Witness added that she had no recol lection of asking Chaplin for the gloves. She did not take them away, and could not account for them being found in Wellington -terrace. The Magistrates expressed their opinion that it was now placed beyond doubt that the Cavendish letter was a wicked fa brication, and that the circumstances mentioned of a pair of gloves having been left behind was an assumption that chanced to prove correct ; but that only p irtially so, inasmuch as the gloves were stated to be black kid, and turned out to be la vender. coloured. After some further renurks from the Magistrates the r r arties retired. Steps, it was afterwards said, were about to he taken that would lead to an. important result. CORONER'S INQUEST.—On Thursday afternoon an inquest was held at the Roebuck, in Southwark, before Mr. Payne, on the body of Mr. Jeffrey Taalcy Winsbarrow, aged 42, late master of a West Indiaman, when after hearing evidence at some length, and reading several communications on the subject, the jury returned a ver dict " that the deceased committed suicide whilst labouring under a fit of temporary insanity, produced by the excitement arising from thu frauduleat hill transactions in which he has been engaged." On the Ist of September next the London and Southampton Railway will be open as far as the great western road leading to Exeter, and the Southampton end as far as Winchester, snaking in the whole 53 miles of this great undertaking completed. About six months since John Callaghan, one e t the rate. collectors of St. Paul's, Corent-garden, was sentenced tra „. portation, at the Central Criminal Court, for defalcations in, hi s ac counts He has since died on board of the infirmary ship at the hulks, having been in a very 11l state of health at his trial, which continued until the period of his death. T j. s S ta A rk L e T E A s S q A meeting . 11 ;T:1 — Lieutenant F. Roberts, late of her Majesty's ship 11I —n. The former gentleman, 0 ok A p E ta F ce A on IR FOrFidally lOasNt,ObeUtsßveeAn attended by A. Jenkinson, Esq., left the Royal Hotel, Plymouth, in a chaise and four, at air early hour in the morning ; the latter, attended by Major Bacon (son-in-law of the Earl of Oxford), left the Globe Hotel at the same time, for the neighbourhood of Saltash. The ground having been fixed and the paces measured, the principals took their places, and exchanged shots, without any injury. Mr. Starke's friend then advanced, and asked Lieutenant Roberts if he was satisfied ? He replied, " I leave it to my friend to decide." The seconds were about to declare the affair at an end, when Mr. Starke observed that, consider ing the angry notes that had passed they ought to have another shot. The seconds, after some consideration, consented. The pistols were then re-loaded in the presence of the parties, the above gentlemen again took their places, and both firing at a given signal, each ball passel close to his opponent. The seconds then advanced, and said no further hostilities could be permitted. Mr. Starke, addressing himself to , Lieutenant Roberts, observed, that on the present occasion he had acted honourably. Lieutenant Roberts paid a similar compliment, and saluting each other, they left the ground, accompanied by their respec tive friends, without any reconciliation being effected. It is not correct., as stated in a Provincial Paper, that the dispute originated on account- o an accomplished " fair one." An inquest, whose proceedings have occupied . ...hree consecutive days, was held last week at Yarmouth, on the body asf Eliza beth Davison, who died suddenly, in the shop of a chemist and druggist from the rupture of a varicose vein. The verdict was, that the woman died in consequence of the improper and unskilful treatment of the chemist. ELSINEUR.---HAmLET.--The objects of interest to a stranger are the castle or fortress which I have mentioned, and the garden of Marienslust, where is to be seen what is called the grave of Hamlet. The interior of the fortress contains nothing remarkable ; the grave is la misnomer, for Hamlet lived, reigned, and died, and was buried in Jutland. A conspiracy had been formed against his life by step-father and mother, as the ancient Danish chroniclers state; he feigned imbecility of mind, being aware of the plot laid to destroy him, formed another against them, and eventually burned to death the whole family by setting fire to a house in which they were, and stopping up the doors. He afterwards reigned quietly and respectably, and died a as;. tural death. I may affirm that there is no brook crowned with willr,ws near Elsincur, where Ophelia could have perished ; and the ent'ausi astic reader of Shakspeare may be relieved from the pain her fate has in spired him with by the conclusion of its falsity. The grave of Hamlet s as seen in Denmark, is to the back of the mansion of Marienslust, about a stone's throw; you catch a view of the sea between a continuous clump of trees planted in a circle, and it is noted by some scattered square stones of small size, which appear to have once served for a ce notaph, and which stand on a knoll or rising mound, covered and sur rounded lay beech trees. I could learn nothing of their history ; they seem little respected or thought about by the inhabitants of Elsineur but pious and romantic pilgrims have conveyed away considerable por. tions of them, and a few years will probably witness their total disper sion.—Northern Capitals of Europe. ALLEGED MURDER. --On Tuesday night ; 'a woman named Agnes Connely or Green, wife of Peter Green, weaver in Calton, lost her life u n d er circumstances which have led to th s • tion that she has b een murdered. It appears that a quarrel ha e d ensued on Saturday last b e t w i xt the deceased and a neighbour in the Brickfields Calton—a Mrs. Lowrie, in which the former had her eye blackened • The animosity betwixt the parties continued to be displayed in eariotts ways till Tuesday night, when Mrs Lowrie, with her husband, entaree. the house in which Mrs. Green lodged, and a conflict was immediately commenced between the two women, the result of which was that Green was so much wounded on the head, by blows with a jug or some other means, that she died almest immediately after the quarrel. Mrs. Lowrie and her husband were taken into custody by the Calttm Police., Dr. Corkindale has examined the body of the deceased, and the w'aole ease is in the hands of the Fisca l .—Glasgow Argus. T. 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